Nashville -- Gallatin -- the Whippoorwill -- Loney Hutchins

This is hard to believe.  I'm in this club-restaurant-bar, with wifi and listening to live country music, while catching up with my other life that isn't spent in a car and looking / listening and then trying to go to sleep.  Another historic district trying to revitalize as a hipster's paradise, with music and so on.  It's easier to do in this part of the world -- the music part -- than some other places, of course.

We had just heard described at Sun Studios what Johnny Cash did to get that buzzy percussion sound out of his strings in "Walk the Line," -- and Loney Hutchins just did it now.  Loosen the strings and insert a piece of paper and get the flutter.  (In those days country didn't allow drums.  Not until 1972 could you play at the Grand Old Opry with drums in your band.)

This after having dinner at the country club on the land that once was Issac Franklin's plantation -- his widow's plantation ... we just barged in, asking directions to the mansion and other questions -- and ended up being invited to dinner.

I am drinking Harp draft in the Whippoorwill (not to be confused with the Bluebird on the television series, Nashville).  Having one heck of a grand time!